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PBP: How the Miami Dolphins won – by losing – in the Jeff Fisher sweepstakes

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As the Jeff Fisher era ended for the Rams on Monday, the ripples could be felt all the way from Los Angeles to Davie, where not long ago, the Dolphins famously courted Fisher to fill their coaching vacancy.

The Dolphins were so hot after Fisher in January 2012 that owner Stephen Ross wasn’t about to let the coach visit team HQ in some rickety limo. No, sir. Ross and Fisher made a splash by landing on the practice field at Nova Southeastern University in a helicopter, triggering 10 days of South Florida being held hostage before Fisher turned down Ross.

Today, if you want irony, we’ve got plenty of irony, plus twists and turns:

  • Fisher’s choice of St. Louis over Miami came down to control, it was reported. Ross wanted to keep Jeff Ireland in place as general manager.
  • Ireland was gone a year later.
  • NFL Network’s Michael Lombardi, quoting sources close to Fisher, said “it appears he will choose the Fins. Fisher wants no part of potential relocation and feels more comfortable with the structure in place in Miami than St. Louis.”
  • Fisher also was said to choose the Rams because they had QB Sam Bradford.
  • Bradford has since been traded twice.
More at LINK: http://dailydolphin.blog.palmbeachp...won-by-losing-in-the-jeff-fisher-sweepstakes/

Your thoughts? :ponder:
 
I never wanted Jeff Fisher because he's a HORRIBLE head coach. He did NOTHING in Tennessee, so I could not understand all the hype with him. I was so relieved he went to the Rams.
 
I feel like we've seen this before. De ja vu? :ponder:

But yeah, Fisher would've been a complete disaster for us. More boring Sparano football? No thanks!
 
Jeff Fisher has stolen millions of dollars over the years. I will never understand how he lasted this long in Tennessee and at the rams. The dudes only accomplishment was the music city miracle where the good old zebras gave him a chance at a super bowl.
 
I thought at best he would pull an Andy Reid and recapture the old magic with a new team. But Fisher wasn't overly successful to begin with. He had tough teams that could eke out a winning record once in a while. Kind of a glorified Sparano.
 
FinaticalOne said:
He did NOTHING in Tennessee, so I could not understand all the hype with him.
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He DID coach Tennessee to a Superbowl, losing to the Rams (ironically) on the last play of the game. He also had several winning seasons after that, coming close to revisiting the Superbowl.
 
Missing out on Jeff Fisher because you wanted to keep Jeff Ireland is the definition of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

Ross is a blunderer. He has more often than not blundered into failure. This time it seems like he managed to blunder into success.
 
TheWalrus said:
Missing out on Jeff Fisher because you wanted to keep Jeff Ireland is the definition of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

Ross is a blunderer. He has more often than not blundered into failure. This time it seems like he managed to blunder into success.
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Worked for the Romans against Carthage.
 
Also, in all likelihood, Fischer would have been fired about the same time as Philbin, assuming same results, and we'd have Gase anyhow.
 
The epitome of mediocre football...Mr. .500.

Was very happy the Dolphins didn't hire him. I was actually surprised he lasted this long with the Rams.
 
Working for old Bud Adams was almost as secure as a civil service position. Being finally kicked to the curb by him to me spoke volumes.

I never understood how a then-mediocre coach with a ground and pound mentality and fewer than half winning seasons should be courted like he was, let alone demand authority to buy the groceries. I breathed a sigh of relief when he used clueless Ross as leverage to extract more bucks and control from clueless Kroenke. Also thought the Demoff agent and Rams son connection constituted a huge conflict of interest.

Anyway, I've always referred to him as "Coach Mediocre." However now with 6 winning seasons out of 21 or 22, "mediocre" is too charitable a description for Fisher IMO.
 
Rams fired coach Jeff Fisher.
In a cruel, ironic twist for the NFL's pre-eminent loser, the firing comes three days before he was set to pass Dan Reeves for the most coaching losses in league history. Fisher is so inept he can't even claim the record that's been his destiny for over a decade. The firing is perhaps the most justified of the modern era. Fisher has had five years to turn around a laughingstock franchise, but instead made it an even bigger joke. Fisher's team had truly made zero progress on his first year in 2012. A wanton waster of draft picks and capital, Fisher is clueless on Sundays, fundamentally misunderstanding offense and overseeing a cavalcade of idiotic penalties. Fisher doesn't make adjustments, aside from usually dialing up more personal fouls in the second half. Try as he may, he never came close to "cleaning up" his chronic, myriad, inexcusable mistakes. No coach, in any sport anywhere in the world, makes more excuses. Fisher has almost certainly coached his final NFL game. Dec 12 - 2:41 PM
Source: Chris Mortensen on Twitter
 
TheWalrus said:
How so?
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Well, I would say that our strategy of hiring one buffoon after another to really sort of get the full range of experience on what kind of buffoons are out there was probably a factor in our hiring a guy who isn't a buffoon this time around.

Much like the Romans found many new and inventive ways to lose armies in the field to Hannibal before coming up with a much better strategy that they would have never come up with without repeatedly suffering humiliating losses. They waited for him to go away. :lol:

When every instinct you have is wrong...
 
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